Blastwave FX has a new collection out called "Heroes & Villains". It's a "collection of 1,000 high definition sound effects to save the world... or destroy it! Created at the Detroit Chop Shop and personally designed by Ric Viers (author of The Sound Effects Bible and The Location Sound Bible), these sound effects will give any production a super-powerful soundtrack. This … [Read more...]

A quick roundup of the independent sfx libraries to have hit our inbox this month.
Blastwave FX - Heroes & Villains
Blastwave FX have launched a competition to coincide with the release of their latest library collection, Heroes & Villains. You will need to call upon your most potent and deadly super power for a chance to win: entrants have to post a … [Read more...]

Tim Prebble recently launched the first in a series of field recording competitions via his blog - a neat coincidence given that here at Designing Sound we've dedicated October to all things field recording.
The premise is of the competition is simple: one month, one subject, one recording. Competition hopefuls are invited to upload their best recording of a cardboard box … [Read more...]

[The kind folks at Audiofile Engineering have put together a giveaway of apps - including Triumph. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find out how you can be one of the three lucky people to win!]
OS X has suffered from the lack of a good and dedicated audio editor. There was a lot of hope pegged on the release of Sound Forge Pro Mac, but we all know how that went. There are … [Read more...]

HUGE voter turnout for this challenge, which I'm very happy to see. It came down to a race between Saro Sahihi and Chris Fox, with Saro edging ahead by a mere 8 votes at the close of the poll! One final thanks to Colin Hart and Hart FX for sponsoring this challenge.
Congratulations, Saro. … [Read more...]

I have reviewed Andre Albino’s entry after continued comments and have decided that it should indeed be disquailified. One of the rules for this challenge stated that all of the original audio needed to be replaced. This was an oversight on my part. It was not one of my picks, I did not inform the other judges properly of the entry's status, or catch it when it was nominated in … [Read more...]

The judging has ended, and we have our finalists. Congratulations to Andre Albino, Chris Fox, Hugo Haas, Saro Sahihi and Peter Veres on their selection to the community vote. Of course, they are still vying for your individual votes to take the prize offered up by Colin Hart and Hart FX.
Head over to Dynamicinterference.com to review their entries and cast your vote. … [Read more...]